Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Brown Butter Sauce
Posted by Tracy | Filed under dinner, lunch
I’m very fond of Italian food in general – pizza, ravioli, manicotti, you name it – but gnocchi is one of my favorite Italian dishes. Whether covered in a creamy tomato sauce or sprinkled with a bit of cheese, give me a bowl of it and I’m in heaven. I decided that it was high [...]
Potato Rolls
Posted by Tracy | Filed under breads & pastries
Last Friday, I tweeted that I had a total impulse buy moment at the grocery store over my lunch break, and I bought Taste of Home’s fall baking issue. I opened it up to the bread/rolls section and just couldn’t put it down…so, I brought it home with me instead, and made these easy potato [...]
Tags: potato
Shepherd’s Pie
Posted by Tracy | Filed under dinner
I usually like to make shepherd’s pie in the fall or winter, but we had such chilly, fall days last week that I figured I could slip it in. Besides, I was able to use two out of the eight packages of frozen vegetables I had in the freezer (hooray!), and I had everything else [...]
Tags: beef, cheese, pie, potato, vegetables
Chicken Strips & Fries
Posted by Tracy | Filed under dinner, lunch
Yesterday evening I was facing the usual weekend dilemma – what to make for dinner. I plan our meals for two weeks at a time, but we’re right at the end of the two weeks and we were also busy most of the weekend, so I didn’t have time to do any grocery shopping. I [...]
Pierogi
Posted by Tracy | Filed under dinner
My friend Becky came over yesterday, for the sole purpose of cooking with me. We both love to cook and bake, and she’s as crazy as I am when it comes to making something new and/or difficult. (For a little more context, she’s the same friend who came over to make fondant with me.) So I [...]

